Café Metropole (1937)
Tyrone Power: Alexander Brown aka Alexis
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Quotes
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Alexis : Love not only comes, it goes. Comes and goes. Comes...
Laura Ridgeway : Yes, I know... like your accent.
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Monsieur Victor Lobard : I want you to make love to that girl as if to make that girl adore you all within 10 days.
Alexis : Make love? Oh no!
Monsieur Victor Lobard : You have a perfectly free choice. Either to make love to a charming girl or to spend a few years in prison.
Alexis : Bring me the most expensive dinner you have.
Monsieur Victor Lobard : Very good, your highness.
[walks over to waiter and gives him his order]
Monsieur Victor Lobard : Serve him the regular table d'hote.
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Alexis : But you do not understand. I am saying good-bye.
Laura Ridgeway : But you promised to help me pick out a new hat.
Alexis : You make everything so difficult.
Laura Ridgeway : Not everything, darling.
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Alexis : May I have the pleasure?
Laura Ridgeway : Why, yes, of course.
[they go to the dance floor]
Margaret Ridgeway : [to her brother, Joseph] He'll get to you later.
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Alexis : [as Alexander Brown] May I have my passport now?
Monsieur Victor Lobard : I'm sorry, but I think I'd better keep it in case you forget who you are, -- your highness.
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Laura Ridgeway : Have you ever been to America?
Alexis : Er, no. No, but my, my parents - they go there upon the honeymoon.
Laura Ridgeway : Hm, hm. That's where I'm going on our honeymoon.
Alexis : What?
Laura Ridgeway : I said that's where I want to go on my honeymoon.
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Alexis : My accent, she comes and goes, comes and goes, comes and goes.
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Laura Ridgeway : And dogs, do you like dogs?
Alexis : Oh, yes. Yes, I, I love the Russian wolfhound.
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Alexis : Why is it your father - he glare at me so?
Laura Ridgeway : That's not a glare. That's a squint. He wants to see you nearer.
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Monsieur Victor Lobard : [Bowing] Your highness, get up! She's consented to dance with you.
Alexis : Who asked her?
Monsieur Victor Lobard : You did...
[He kicks Power's foot under the table]
Monsieur Victor Lobard : with an accent.
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Alexis : [as Alexander Brown] Do you know anything about that great American institution called taxes?
Monsieur Victor Lobard : I've been taxing Americans for a long time.
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Laura Ridgeway : Well, there's something on your conscience. Have you killed someone?
Alexis : No. No, that is the trouble. I should like to kill someone.
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Alexis : Anyway, I've had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Ridgeway. Long ago in Russia I have heard of him very highly.
Joseph Ridgeway : Yeah? You don't say so.
Alexis : Yes, yes. Yes - perhaps you do not realize what a famous man you are.
Margaret Ridgeway : Oh, he's not exactly unaware of it.
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Alexis : You can never tell about the Russians
Laura Ridgeway : Tell what?
Alexis : You can never tell anything.
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Laura Ridgeway : Are you ill?
Alexis : No. No, I'm not ill. I, I am in what you call the mood.
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First Cashier : Why you cheap thief. You're going to pay the 480,000 Francs or I'll break every bone in your body.
Alexis : [as Alexander Brown] Well, if you think that that's going to help you to get your money, why don't you try it